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“A library is like an island in a vast sea of ignorance.”
— Justice Strauss, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Simile Examples, library, Island, vast sea, Ignorance
“Girls were falling all over me in school, and not just because I would extend my leg when they walked by. I was a lone wolf, a mysterious stranger, a member of the drama club.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: Girls, School, Leg, walked by, lone wolf, mysterious stranger
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Stories, Story, not much happiness, No happy ending
“In every library, there is a single book to answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”
— Olivia Caliban, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: library, book, Simile Examples, Fire, Mind
“If you have ever lost a friend, you know that it makes your world feel incomplete, like a puzzle with a piece missing, or one half of a broken spyglass.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: lost, Friend, Incomplete, Puzzle
“If you want a mule to move, you can reward it with a carrot or you can hit it with a stick.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: Metaphor Examples, Mule, Move, carrot, Stick
“Is this about the children? I apologize for the noise. I told them to cry using their inside voices.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Children, Apologize, noises, cry, inside voices
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: Miracles, Simile Examples, Meatballs
“It’s time. Let’s lose our first patient.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: Time, first patient, Lose, Death
“Parts of the plan were unplanned. That’s the plan. I mean, you don’t want to overplan a plan.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Unplanned, plan, overplan
“Perhaps the hardest part of life on the lam is that you have to keep moving, often in a direction that seems wrong, dangerous or an agonizing combination of both.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital
Tagged: Life, Direction, Wrong, Dangerous Game
“Patience is like a grating foreign accent. It can wear thin.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: Patience, accent, wear thin, Simile Examples
“People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.”
— Esmé Squalor, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: People, Deserve, World
“Poor little orphan. Haven’t you learned anything this year? Week? Season?”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: poor, little, Orphan, Learning, week, Season
“Poetry? You’ll stop at nothing to make me talk.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Poetry, Stop At Nothing, talk
“Sitting with friends, talking about something important is one of the most powerful and necessary forces in the world. It is the way so many noble organizations begin, with a conversation between associates or even brothers.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: Friends, Powerful, Forces, World, noble, Organization
“Some things in life are difficult to understand, even after years and years of thinking about them while wandering alone through desolate landscapes, usually during the off-season.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Understand, difficult, years, wandering, desolate, Landscapes
“Sleep is a natural part of life, like cosmetics or frivolous lawsuits.”
— Esmé Squalor, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: Sleep, Life, Cosmetics, natural part
“Sometimes a story ends before it’s over with unanswered questions, unresolved plots, lingering suspense, blanketing the world like snow. Or like smoke from a suspicious fire.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Carnivorous Carnival
Tagged: story ends, Unanswered Questions, lingering suspense, Simile Examples, smoke, Fire
“Starving people can’t eat money. Plus, if we give money to poor people, then they won’t be poor anymore, and we won’t have anyone to feel sorry for.”
— Esmé Squalor, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: starving, Eat, Money Advice, poor, feel sorry for
“The phrase 'in the dark,' which I’m sure you know, can refer to not only one’s shadowy surroundings, but also to the secrets which might be surrounding you, too. Every day, the sun goes down over all of these secrets, so everyone is in the dark in one way or another.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Ersatz Elevator
Tagged: in the dark, shadowy, secrets of the heart, Sun
“There are times when the entire world seems wrong. The way a reptile room without any reptiles seems wrong. The way a bookshelf without any books seems wrong. Or a loved one’s house without the loved one.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Reptile Room
Tagged: Wrong, entire world, imbalanced, reptile, Books, loved one
“The stove is a bit like a servant. You have to whack it sometimes to get it to work.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: stove, Servant, whack, Work, Metaphor Examples
“The whole world is cruel. School is just a microcosm.”
— Larry Your-Waiter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: World, cruel, School, Microcosm
“There’s no word to describe the feeling of waking up and knowing instantly that something is terribly wrong.”
— Daniel Handler, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Reptile Room
Tagged: Word, describe, Feeling, Waking Up, terribly wrong
“This school has a new kind of spirit energy. A sense of unity and joy which you usually cannot find unless you are at a birthday party or a public hanging.”
— Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Austere Academy
Tagged: School, spirit energy, Unity, Joy, Metaphor Examples, birthday party
“To Beatrice – My love flew like a butterfly, until death swooped down like a bat.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Miserable Mill
Tagged: Love, Simile Examples, Butterfly, Death, bat
“Trouble and strife can cover this world like the dark of night, or like smoke from a suspicious fire. And when that happens, all good, true and decent people know that it’s time to volunteer.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: trouble, Strife, dark, Night, Simile Examples, Volunteer
“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Bad News, Good News, Sadness, Misery, Grief
“We all learn bravery the hard way.”
— Jacques Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: learn, Bravery, hard way
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